Lyra Noa is a Balance 60 that was stretched on the sterns to become a custom Balance 64. She was designed and crafted specifically for the owner of Nexus Yachts, who builds the Balance 526, 580 and 620. He built her for himself as an offshore adventure cat for surfing, fishing and diving charters. With 6 double cabins and all of the serious gear one needs for fishing, diving and off-the-grid adventures, she's is a unique performance sailing catamaran unlike all others.
Lyra Noa, like all of our larger Balance cats, is a carbon reinforced, foam core, total epoxy fabrication. She is light, strong, and exceptionally fast yet has the capacity to carry significant cruising payloads. She was launched in 2019 in Saint Francis, South Africa, and due to the pandemic her owner was unable to use her as planned. He then eventually decided to sail her to the Cape Verde Islands for a fishing expedition. That mission was called short due to the rapid expansion of Balance Catamarans and the need for him to return to Saint Francis to oversee the third factory expansion in three years.
Lyra was then sailed to Panama, where she is right now, and it was decided to put her up for sale as her owner has three years of a busy build schedule to oversee and no longer has the time to sail her or manage the adventure charter operation he first envisioned.
The owner of the boat is a lifetime seaman and in addition to owning the company that built her, owns and operates a fleet of fishing boats. I explain this because Lyra Noa is reflective of his deep pool of experience sailing and operating boats in the rough waters of South Africa. He knows how to build a catamaran, how to fit one out, how to make a performance catamaran capable of off-the-grid adventuring. So while it is the case that Lyra Noa is a "charter boat" (because she has 6 double cabins) she is anything but typical of a charter boat - she is fast, she is robust, she is equipped and designed to go just about anywhere and sustain herself. She'll do windspeeds reaching in 8 knots of breeze, but can still carry a big genset, dive compressor, dive tanks, fishing gear, etc. etc. And big tender.
Lyra Noa is ideal for a family who wants to really sail, loves to sail, and wants to explore the world, or is ideal for an adventure charter operator to perform charters where the typical charter cat just couldn't cut it. She can handle a blow, she can sail to windward, she will be comfortable riding over big sloppy seas, she will reduce passage times, burn less fuel, and be as easy to care and maintain as any cat with her level of gear and systems can possibly be. She's a very, very special cat.
To learn all about her feel free to email us or give us a call. She can be shown at any time in Panama where she is presently lying for hurricane season.
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